Mayan statue sold at Paris auction for $4m is ‘fake’
BBC NEWS (at BBC Mobile – News Latins America & Caribbean) | March 23, 2011 A Mayan sculpture that fetched 2.9m euros ($4.2m, £2.5m) at a Paris auction is a fake, Mexican officials believe. The French auction house Drouot maintains that the statue, of a masked figure carrying a shield, is genuine and more than
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